小店
xiǎo diàn
Pinyin

Definition

小店
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xiǎo diàn
  1. small store

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

小
xiǎo
  1. 1 small
  2. 2 tiny
  3. 3 few
  4. 4 young
小时
xiǎo shí
  1. 1 hour
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
店
diàn
  1. 1 inn
  2. 2 shop
  3. 3 store
  4. 4 classifier: 家 jiā
咖啡店
kā fēi diàn
  1. 1 café
  2. 2 coffee shop
商店
shāng diàn
  1. 1 store
  2. 2 shop
  3. 3 classifier: 家 jiā
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation
不拘小节
bù jū xiǎo jié
  1. 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
以小人之心，度君子之腹
yǐ xiǎo rén zhī xīn , duó jūn zǐ zhī fù
  1. 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
以小挤大
yǐ xiǎo jǐ dà
  1. 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
前不着村，后不着店
qián bù zháo cūn , hòu bù zháo diàn
  1. 1 lit. no village ahead and no inn behind (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be stranded in the middle of nowhere
  3. 3 to be in a predicament

Sample Sentences

听说地铁站里有很多卖咖喱饭的小店，小得连座位都没有。人们挤在一起站着吃饭，三五分钟就搞定一餐，紧接着就赶去别的地方。整个城市都处在高速高压中运转。哎，这样的压力怎么受得了？
tīngshuō dìtiě zhàn lǐ yǒu hěn duō mài gāli fàn de xiǎodiàn ，xiǎo de lián zuòwèi dōu méiyǒu 。rénmen jǐ zài yīqǐ zhàn zhe chīfàn ，sānwǔ fēnzhōng jiù gǎo dìng yī cān ，jǐnjiē zhe jiù gǎnqù bié de dìfang 。zhěnggè chéngshì dōu chǔ zài gāosù gāoyā zhōng yùnzhuǎn 。ai ，zhèyàng de yālì zěnme shòudeliǎo ？
I've heard that there are a lot of curry-rice shops in the subway, so small that they don't even have seats. People stand crowded together to eat, and polish off a meal in under five minutes. Then they rush off to the next place. The entire city runs under high speed and pressure. Agh. How can anyone stand that kind of pressure?
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哟！还真是没看出来啊，今天是美食家大驾光临啦，您老可得在博客里给小店多多美言，帮忙宣传宣传。
yō ！hái zhēn shì méi kàn chūlái ā ，jīntiān shì měishíjiā dàjiàguānglín la ，nínlǎo kě děi zài bókè lǐ gěi xiǎodiàn duōduō měiyán ，bāngmáng xuānchuán xuānchuán 。
Oh! You wouldn't really know it to look at you. Well, I should roll out the red carpet for Mr Gourmet then. So you could say something nice about our store on your blog, help us with our publicity.
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不是这样的，实在是因为小店人手有限，目前没有安排送餐员。
búshi zhèyàng de ，shízài shì yīnwèi xiǎodiàn rénshǒu yǒuxiàn ，mùqián méiyǒu ānpái sòng cān yuán 。
It’s not like this. We have limited staff and at the moment we do not have a delivery team.
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我们派出所没有复印机。你可以到对面的小店复印，很近的。
wǒmen pàichūsuǒ méiyǒu fùyìnjī 。nǐ kěyǐ dào duìmiàn de xiǎodiàn fùyìn ，hěn jìn de 。
Our local police station does not have a photocopier. You can go across the street to the small shop. It is close.
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对，选择特别多。而且最好吃的都在路边的小店，又便宜又好。
duì ，xuǎnzé tèbié duō 。érqiě zuì hǎochī de dōu zài lùbiān de xiǎodiàn ，yòu piányi yòu hǎo 。
Yes, there is so much to choose from. Plus, the best food is from the small shops on the side of the road. They are cheap and good.
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哪里！我家小店虽然其貌不扬，但这酒可是鼎鼎有名啊！但凡是喝了三碗的人，没有不醉的，因而也过不了前面的山冈。所以小店得名：“三碗不过冈”。
nǎli ！wǒ jiā xiǎodiàn suīrán qímàobùyáng ，dàn zhè jiǔ kěshì dǐngdǐngyǒumíng a ！dànfán shì hē le sān wǎn de rén ，méiyǒu bù zuì de ，yīnér yě guòbuliǎo qiánmian de shāngāng 。suǒyǐ xiǎodiàn démíng ：“sān wǎn bù guò gāng ”。
Not at all! Although my little place doesn't look like much, this wine is extremely well known! But there's no one who's not drunk after three bowls. Because of that, they can't get past the mountain ridge up ahead. So my little inn is called ``After Three Bowls, You Can't Cross the Ridge!"
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不是。我是在小店买的，不用身份证。
bù shì 。wǒ shì zài xiǎodiàn mǎi de ，bùyòng shēnfènzhèng 。
No. I bought it in a small shop. I didn't need an ID card.
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